Hanoi hosts World Peace Council meeting

National Assembly Vice Chairman Uong Chu Luu, who is also Chairman of the Vietnam Peace Committee, addresses the meeting (Photo: http://thoidai.com.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) – Peace activists from peace organisations and
councils of various countries around the world gathered at the World Peace
Council (WPC) Executive Committee's meeting that opened in Hanoi on November 24.

Opening the event, National Assembly Vice Chairman Uong Chu Luu, who is
also Chairman of the Vietnam Peace Committee, noted that in 68 years of
formation and development, the WPC has made important contributions to the
world movements of fostering solidarity with nations struggling for peace,
independence, democracy and progress.

The council greatly supported the formation of a large network of people
supporting Vietnam during the country’s fights for national independence and
reunification in the past as well as the current construction and development
cause.

Luu expressed hope that through the meeting, the first one held after
the council’s congress in Brazil in 2016, participants will discuss frankly and
objectively on peace and security in the region and the world, and share
experience of their country’s peace activities, thus designing a specific plan
of actions to increase its role and influence in the maintenance of peace.

President of the WPC Socorro Gomes said that over the past years, the council
has actively protested wars, interferences and coup d’états and demanded fair
political solutions to disputes.

She noted that fighting for peace, democracy and justice is an
unchangeable trend of the current era, which is backed by the council.

During the two-day event, participants also sought measures to implement
specific activities of the council in the 2017-2020 period.

On the occasion, Luu presented the Friendship Order to Pallab Sengupta,
Secretary General of the All-India Peace and Solidarity Organisation to
recognise his efforts in strengthening the friendship between India and
Vietnam.

At the event, Luu also presented the insignia of “For peace and
friendship among nations” to President Socorro Gomes, General Secretary Athanasios
Pafilis, and Executive Secretary Iraklis Tsavdaridis of the WPC.-VNA